Re:One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swi...
by ethbro on Friday January 03, 2020 @10:13AM
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I searched through a few Impossible patents as a result of this thread. They've certainly got a number.
As near as I can tell (not chemist), they're focusing their patents on (a) extractive methods (e.g. how to produce raw starting blocks from actual, grown plants) & (b) specific mixes or treatments that target the meat-analog market.
For example, a lot of their parents are of the form of "a food product with X% this, Y% that, Z% the other. Where X had a molecular weight of A and a gel point of B degrees. Where Y has..."
Re:One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swi...
by tsbinz on Friday January 03, 2020 @10:01AM
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Where's "here"? In Switzerland you also see lots of burger replacements, imported like beyond or "homegrown" like the green mountain burger.
Re:One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swi...
by Vinnl on Sunday January 05, 2020 @03:48AM
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In the Netherlands, burgers are definitely a thing, but the ones that get people excited so far appear to have been chicken, meatballs and smoked sausage (which are traditionally important here). The introduction of the Beyond Burger made some noise, but mostly because of it being hyped in the US. It does not appear to be a regular buy, though that might be because it's also really expensive, comparatively.
All anecdotal, though.
And TBH I think the obsession with a burger replacement is some American thing, here they are used for replacing meat (mostly minced meat) in all kinds of foods. I'm not sure I've even tried a fake-meat burger yet.